GOP 5.0: Republican Renewal Under President Obama

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Xulon Press, Jan 15, 2009 - Political Science - 176 pages
The GOP's fall from the triumphant elections of 2004 to the consecutive defeats in 2006 and 2008 didn't have to happen, and doesn't have to be prolonged. But change in crucial aspects of the party's message and messaging must occur quickly if the potential pick-ups of 2010 are to be achieved, and the White House reclaimed in 2012. As soon as the dust settled in 2008, Hugh Hewitt began an intensive series of interviews with key GOP leaders and political analysts and tacticians across the ideological spectrum. The blueprint for Republican renewal presented here reflects the best of that thinking. As the GOP's ranks in D.C. are thinned by retirements of longserving senators such as Ohio's George Voinovich and Missouri's Kit Bond, and as the leadership of Senators McConnell and Kyl and House Members Boehner and Cantor begins to cope with large Democratic majorities and the agenda of President Obama, the Republican grassroots need to re-engage and new energy and ideas must fl ow to restore balance to D.C. The repair of the Republican brand must be begun and sustained or the party's stay in the wilderness will be prolonged far beyond 2010.
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
Rule 2 A Genuine Cheerful Optimism
17
Rule 4 Every Activist Every Candidate
26
Rule 9 Get iSmart in a Twitter Hurry
33
Rule 13 Publish the 2010 Senate and House
46
Conclusion
57
Other Voices on the GOPs Future
69
Interview with Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer
108
Interview with Michael Barone November 17 2008
114
Interview with Victor Davis Hanson November
125
Interview with Bill Kristol November 6 2008
134
Interview with John Podhoretz November 17 2008
141
Interview with Mark Steyn November 6 2008
152
Closing the Technology Gap A Conversation
158
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Hugh Hewitt is an author, educator, broadcaster, and attorney who graduated from Harvard University and the University of Michigan Law School. Hewitt has served as counsel in the White House and for the state of California. He is a partner in the law firm Hewitt & McGuire and a professor at Chapman University School of Law. He was also appointed to a four-year term on the California Arts Council. Hewitt is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register. He appears as a commentator on such TV shows as Nightline, the Today Show, and Larry King Live. He hosted the PBS series Searching for God, modeled after his book by the same name. Hewitt was awarded an Emmy in 1995 for co-hosting the show Life and Time.

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